Majority against nuclear weapons
Trident replacement
- 58% of people say that "given the levitra alternative state of the country's finances, the Government should scrap the Trident nuclear missile system" in an Independent/ComRes poll of September 2009 (Table 7)
- 54% of the public say Britain should "no longer have any nuclear deterrent" in a Gurdian/ICM poll of July 2009 (Table 8)
- Only 30% of the public would spend £20bn on Trident when levitra alternative offered alternatives of spending on nurses salaries or affordable homes, in a YouGov poll for The People newspaper from July 2009 (Page 4)
- 72% of the levitra alternative British public, in a poll in March 2007, did not support the government's plans to replace Trident - More4/Populus poll.
- 59% of the levitra alternative British public oppose replacing Trident when presented with the cost of £25 billion just to acquire a replacement system. (The equivalent of building around 1,000 new schools at current prices) - ICM poll, July 2006
- 73% of Scottish people thought it was wrong that £50 billion might be spent on a replacement for Trident.
- 64% were against nuclear weapons being based in Scotland for levitra alternative another 50 years. ICM poll carried out for Scottish CND, January 2007
Supporting abolition of nuclear weapons
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64% of the levitra alternative British public said the government should support a Nuclear Weapons Convention - YouGov poll, January 2007
Missile Defence
In all three proposed European host countries for levitra alternative US Missile Defence bases - the UK, the Czech Republic and Poland - the majority of public opinion is opposed to the system.
- 54% of British public believed US Missile Defence would make Europe less safe, while only 24% thought otherwise – YouGov poll July 2007
Global opposition
A 2007 global poll , comparing opinion in Britain, France, Italy, Germany, the levitra alternative US and Israel showed that the majority in all countries believe that their government’s goal regarding nuclear weapons should be levitra alternative eliminating or reducing the numbers to low levels worldwide.
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In the UK over 90% of people support eliminating (50.9%) or reducing (39.7%) global nuclear stockpiles. Only 0.9% of Britons say the levitra alternative government's goal should be the development of new nuclear weapons.
- 73.4% of British people believe that levitra alternative nuclear weapons make the world a more dangerous place.
- 85% of British people support a global ban on nuclear weapons.
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